St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-05

GcA sons and daughters
by the old horse. detailing the excel
ences and value of them. Charles w.
Ware, the present owner of Western
Chief. seeing the Article referred to.
called at the Office during the past week,
partly for the purpose of talking of the
Chief and partly for the purpose Of con-
sideriHg whether he could make
a profitable season in st. Paul
with him. Mr.. Ware is Il we'll
known banker in Iowa, and
is the gentleman that bought the Bar
den farm, in Cottonwood county. to-
gether with all the stock there was on
it, among which was Western Chief.
The farm consists Of 1900 acres, well
under cultivation. and divided into
paSturage, grass and grain. lie is very
free in the expression OF praise and adj
miratiOn for the old horse. When the
Chief was brought to St. Paul he was
four years old. He is now sixteen.
Previous to being brought here he was
subjected to some kind of an accident,
in which he was very greatly frightened,
and it was not thought safe to harness
and drive him. The report was
also put in circulation that he
was ugly and dangerous. These
two reports were generally circulated
Slllu DClitNtt. anu littluI diIA tlNdtCi a
great deal of DrejudicC against him.
Both of these defects have now been
remedied. and Mr.. Ware says there is
not iii the United States horse that is
more gentle OF more easily handled
than Western Chief. In regard to not
daring tO,put him in harness and drive
him, Mr.. Ware says that he is driven to
wagon almost every day. and is a mag
niticent roadster. He was kept for sew
eral years at the Cottonwood farm and
produced a
LARGE NUMBER OF COLTS.
but they were all from common mares.
They make splendid r0adSterS. but none
of them, SO tar as known. have
been trained To speed. Lately
Mr.. Ware has had him down in Iowa.
There the quality OF the mares is little
better, still none Of them are good
enough to produce fast trotters. Mr..
Ware has a few colts from his own
mares which show unmistakable evi-
dence of trOtting very fast. One, he
mentions in particular, is Prince Carl,
out of Lady Richards, by Swigert. He
is coming two years old and weighs 800
pounds. lie is very handsome. large,
well-fOrmed colt, with great substance
and power. He says that all through
the cOantry around Cottonwood. and
also in Iowa, all the fillies by Western
Chief even out of common mares, are
being picked mp as fast as possible for
brood mares. William Lindeke, of
this city, when the stock of the Bar
den farm in Cottonwood county
was sold, as was mentioned last week,
went down there and bought eight or
ten colts and FLIES by Western Chief
and now has them. Mr.. Ware desires
to secure for the Chief better class of
mares, and for the purpose of doing so
has thought of bringing him to st. Paul
for season. 1t is very doubtful though
if he does. for this locality IS now well
supplied with first-claSS stock horses Of
uneXceptionable breeding. Commodore
KittsOn has BlackwO0d, Revenue, Won
ATnim and Also. Capt. Marrett has
NutwoOd MambrinO and 4 good Wilkes
colt. George W. Sherwood has Wood
ford Wilkes, Baym0nt and Memory,
while Empire Wilkes is at the De Graft
farm and Theseus at McGrath's farm.
1t is quite probable that Mr.. Ware will
conclude that there is hardly room fer
his horse in this locality.